Legion

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721.
by Legion 17y ago
Unless you're under the impression that Ajay really does strut around Intel to the sound of screaming girls, "acting as themselves" wouldn't really be what they'd need to do in the commercial.
722.
by Legion 17y ago
Psychonauts is also $10 on Steam. I originally played it on the Xbox, but today, I would definitely plug a 360 controller into my PC and download from Steam instead. High res and native widescreen, baby.
723.
by Legion 17y ago
I guess now Celine Dion can make whomever she's singing to love her. On a less silly note, there's so many of these "found water on X" stories that as a lay person, it's hard to tell what's an exciting discovery. I mean, it took a quick Goo
724.
by Legion 17y ago
If the New York Times is a "printout of yesterday's news", does that make The Economist a "printout of last week's news"?
725.
by Legion 17y ago
That's almost exactly what Firefox 3.5 looks like for me in Linux. No oversized back button or anything like the default Windows theme. I imagine there's probably a classic icon theme that will change the icons to match those old ones.
726.
by Legion 17y ago
But really, Andrew's redesign isn't the point. He wasn't saying his design was definitely the way to go, he simply took a stab at it as an example. The points he made in the text of his letter aren't invalidated by any arguable shortcomings
727.
by Legion 17y ago
Indeed. Stupid and fascinating aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, I'd say they're often highly correlated.
728.
by Legion 17y ago
I agree with your comment about the DP not being a deterrent. People who murder people aren't thinking, "I can handle life without parole, but gee, I can't handle that death penalty!". Thoughts about consequences only begin for them after g
729.
by Legion 17y ago
Exactly. Being cold is an ongoing problem. Getting ice cream on my hands is something I fix by pulling out a wet nap or running my hands under the nearest source of water. No one would carry around a bulky glove to avoid 10 seconds of incon
730.
by Legion 17y ago
>> You're solution is to have a perfect system? No. My "solution" is to focus on fixing the part that's really broken, not the thing that later becomes an issue from that breakage. That doesn't result in a perfect system. However, i
731.
by Legion 17y ago
Luckily, the analogy had nothing to do with the death penalty, and was simply about focusing on the symptom instead of the root problem. You'd have to really go out of your way to read it wrong to draw any sort of "this is comparing death p
732.
by Legion 17y ago
Focusing on the death penalty is completely missing the point. If you're writing code and something keeps throwing nasty exceptions, you don't remove the exception handling - you fix the code. Death penalty isn't the problem (leaving aside
733.
by Legion 17y ago
Steam and I have a tacit agreement. In exchange for my loss of right of first sale, Steam continues with the aggressive pricing. Not being able to resell games matters to me less when I can buy games cheaper in the first place. This is espe
734.
by Legion 17y ago
Wait for Android to appear on phones on something besides the US's fourth-place provider. They're coming this fall, and it will likely make a big difference in Android's adoption (and, in turn, its viability as a commercial development plat
735.
by Legion 17y ago
I used to have a friend with whom I would talk about rock bands. On more than one occasion, he referred to a group as being "derivative" of another group, when chronologically, the group he was calling derivative came first. His response wa
736.
by Legion 17y ago
My experience with 3D engines doesn't extend much beyond an undergrad project I did, but even that was enough to read this list and smile knowingly at a good chunk of it.
737.
by Legion 17y ago
I tend to do this too, but I'm not convinced yet that I'm doing the right thing. I'd love to hear other opinions on this style.
738.
by Legion 17y ago
I won't necessarily dispute this, but those "resources" on my system are there to be used. Sometimes it seems like people buy quad-core machines and 8GB of RAM, and then are angry if an app uses more than 1% of CPU and a few MB of that RAM.
739.
by Legion 17y ago
Coda drives me nuts just because it is Mac (not "MAC") only. I bounce from machine to machine, and I hate it when a tool I like on one machine is simply absent on the next. I know Panic is all about Mac software, but I wish they would find
740.
by Legion 17y ago
I have come to really appreciate Eclipse. It's come a long way since the first time I tried to use it. Eclipse, plus vim in a terminal window, take care of all of my editing needs.
741.
by Legion 17y ago
Actually, my reason for writing "C/C++" was simply because they're the two languages I see targeted by articles like these. It wasn't to lump them together as one; it was like writing "Ruby/Python".
742.
by Legion 17y ago
Indeed. So many of these articles can be boiled down to: "As long as we limit the comparison to things (our language) does well, and exclude things C/C++ do that (our language) can't do at all, (our language) totally 0wnz C/C++".
743.
by Legion 17y ago
Nice catch. As explained at www.php.net/global, PHP most certainly does "support global variables". They are accessible by declaring them with the "global" keyword within the scope they are to be used, or by accessing them via the $GLOBALS
744.
by Legion 17y ago
This page has a blog post where some people pointed out the terms of use violation: http://devin.reams.me/free-google-voice-calls-with-t-mobile-... Apparently the text that it violates is: "Your five numbers must be US domestic numbers an
745.
by Legion 17y ago
I would really like to know how long you've been using this. Technically, this is a violation of the MyFaves terms of use. I'm wondering if, as Google Voice becomes more popular, T-Mobile may take note of MyFaves using numbers like the GV o
746.
by Legion 17y ago
Right, but the "problem" is that unless you're using SMS forwarding (and any carrier fees that incurs), then an incoming SMS to your Google Voice number isn't arriving to your phone as an SMS message. Instead, the Google Voice app is pollin
747.
by Legion 17y ago
For the record, you have to be sure to go into your GV account and uncheck "Receive SMS on this phone" for your mobile phone. That turns off the forwarding. The GV client app periodically polls GV for new messages, and will alert you when y
748.
by Legion 17y ago
Forwarding incoming SMS messages is what you do when there's no Google Voice app. With a Google Voice app, you can directly receive SMS messages sent to your Google Voice number, no forwarding (and thus, no carrier charge) needed. At least,
749.
by Legion 17y ago
He's 16 years old, not 15. Not that the small error makes much of a difference.
750.
by Legion 17y ago
Google Voice = free text messaging over the data connection. That means an end to charging rates of $1000 per MB for SMS data. The biggest ripoff they've got going would be gone. Of course they're in no hurry to let that gravy train come to

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